Béla Bartók Music For Strings Percussion And Celesta I mov

[benbisley]

This music speaks of the mystery of existence

[largemoose]

One of the best pieces of Western music.

[largemoose]

"does anyone here know where i can find a piece by him that uses the Fibonacci sequence? "

you're listening to one.

[gta661610]

Thanks for the upload!!! and yes he used the " proporciones aureas" in the structure of this movement but that's not the fact that made this piece so amazing, it's only another way to organize the music material.

[tomestubbs]

Yes it is an amazing fugue, with retrograde inversions and so on. But way beyond this is a powerful amalgamation of genius and soul. I think I understand him,this is the best of humanity.

[olpika]

So eerie.

[bandholm27]

Great ! Very happy to hear this !  Thank You!

[ChocloManx]

happy? more like completely crushed.

[cookiesonsteve]

does anyone here know where i can find a piece by him that uses the Fibonacci sequence?

[337336324317313306]

The second movement of this has it in a xylphone section.

[tomestubbs]

It is also in 5/8 and is the same melody as the first movement just transformed.

[JacquesVoltaire]

Hi! Many of Bartók's masterpieces were consctructed the same logically system e.g. Sonate for two pianos & percussion:, BlueBeard, Mandarine. The Fibonacci sequence appears in the chords, because Bartók used the 2,3,5,8.... semitones measures. This is an amazing Bartók's sphere in the music. Harmonies & meliodies were founded on the old hungarian folk music.

[GeorgeVenetsanos]

Very very good conductor !!! Congratulations....

[choo2oo8]

perfect canon.

[ReverendBRelevant]

By the way, the theory about the first movement being based on the Fibonacci series, was presented by Ernő Lendvai. However, there are some flaws in his explanation; for example he counts 89 bars, but the composition actually consists of only 88 bars. Also he claims that as from the 34th bar, the strings start playing without sourdine. However, in the original sheet music, this only applies to the first violin and the cello's, but not to the other strings.

[lokoko020]

interesting.. thanks

[tomestubbs]

The expression goes way beyond some mathematic principle. Why must we be locked into this BS? It is one of the great landmarks of music! What do you feel aboutthis piece of Bartoks soul being expressed. I see greatness!

[ReverendBRelevant]

This is a mindblowing piece of music - my absolute favourite! The way the same chromatic theme is repeated with quint intervals in thsi first movement is just amazing. I like this version, although I consider the start to be a bit on the slow side.

[ViolinViolaCelloChem]

This piece is amazing, but the 3rd movement is the one from "The Shining". I just remember that because there was one part where a door creaked open along with the xylophone solo at the beginning of the piece, and I thought that it matched perfectly. Great job on the work!

[quaco24]

ajé

[christopherkeef]

This piece can be so hypnotic and yet so haunting. No wonder Stanley kubrick used it for 'The shining'. It's unusally scary yet calm.

[terransage]

My dad used to have a recording of this, along with the score. When I was in high school (and into hard and prog rock), I used to sneak into his repair shop and listen to this with headphones while reading the score over and over again. I couldn't get enough of it. It's still one of my favorite pieces, and this is a great interpretation of it. Gives me chills--and tears.

[Camenietzki]

Thank You for posting this..very nice music and well conducted too, i Think Kubrik used this music for "The Shining" because of the Mistery inside Bartok style...a real genius of XX century.For me are 30 years that i love this music, i still remember the first impression...was really a nem world opening in my brain.

[ddcullen]

Fibonacci numbers are sometimes used to determine tunings, art, and music. It is commonly thought that the first movement is based oin the mathmatical principles of Fibonacci. Checkout Fiboncci and the Golden Ratio or Golden Rectangle! These mathmatic patterns can be seen in: Freemason architechture, the Pyramids of Giza, Wash DC layout, star mapping, stonehenge the monolith in the movies 2001, 2010 etc... pretty cool conspiracy !

[theaaroneason]

When I took 20th Century music history, I did a presentation on the instances of the Golden Ratio in this piece, particularly how significant changes (new instruments being introduced, etc.) occur at measure markings that are coincidentally Fibonacci numbers.  Very interesting stuff.

[blackminiracer]

Absolutely the grand masterpiece for chillout. I know of one other composition by a different composer who could bring out the same chillout effect.

[holycandlelight]

Whenever I hear this, I have the same inner vision of a close-up perspective from within an endless, deep evergreen forest, in the dead of winter, the most infinite depth of isolation and serenity. For me, 5:47 begins a crescendo of increasingly enveloping remoteness, but not of negativism. It's been that way for me all my life with this piece, one of my all-time favorites.

[paulchiuk]

Thankyou. Its been 25 years since I heard this music! Its powerful integrity made it one of my favorite pieces, albeit in its absence.

[mrmojok]

Really? Some of this piece scares the shit out of me, because of Kubrick's 'The Shining".

[manossg]

Orgasmic rendition of Bartok's masterpiece! Why just a single camera view???

[larryrael]

It's a single camera view because the conductor is recording himself for analysis of his conducting technique. It is not meant to be a professional TV production which shows off all the soloists and the ensemble. It would have been nice to have other angles, but it's good to have this at all on YouTube...